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The Springfield race riot that founded the NAACP
1908
Springfield, Illinois
Soerfm · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A white mob, refused the two Black prisoners it came for, burned Black businesses and homes for two days and lynched two men, one of them an eighty-four-year-old cobbler married to a white woman. It happened in Lincoln's own town, in the year before his centenary, and that was the point northern papers could not get past. The call that created the NAACP the following year cites it directly.
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